We arrived in Denver in the morning pretty tired because it was really cold on the train and thus we couldn't sleep. We left Denver immediately and using the public transport system, we got to Boulder. We had some troubles trying to find the hostel, but after a-little-longer-than-necessary walk, we found it, checked in, took a shower and then Jirka went to bed and I was doing some school work for a while.
Our plan for the first day was to realx and so we did. Later, we visited the Information Center, got some maps and tips, went for dinner and walked through the Pearl Street Mall which was really nice.
Some negative things... I think I had expected Boulder to be something like Banff so I was a little disappointed, although it's definitely a nice place. Not as beautiful as Banff, though. Also, the people there are a little weird. They don't smile much and some are scary weird, which made me believe that I wouldn't like to live there (although I thought it's a pretty cool college town :)).
And the hostel... Probably the worst one I've ever seen. Boulder International Hostel, definitely the cheapest place in town, but - does it mean that I want to live like a pig when I don't want to spend a fortune on accommodation? Seriously, it was very very dirty. In the ladies' bathroom, there were four toilets. Three out of them didn't have doors, just shower curtains (I heard about public toilets without doors in Russia, but in the US, I didn't expect that :)), one of them didn't even have proper walls. The showers were disgusting, the first time I used them I was a little afraid that I'd be more dirty after using them than before... If you go there, you definitely have to have flip flops... The mattress wasn't the cleanest either and there was often no hot water in the kitchen which made it a little hard to wash the dishes...
But enough about the hostel, I don't want to think about it anymore. :) The surrounding area was really nice and is great for biking as there are real bike paths (not like in San Francisco, for example, where you can meet a bus on a bike path :)). So we spent the second day on bikes which was quite hard, with all the mountains and the wind, but it was really nice. Jirka got completely sunburnt, though.
The second day, we decided to go for breakfast to Lucile's where you have to wait for at least 20 minutes to get in. It's worth it, though, it was a great breakfast, although quite pricy, too. After that we decided to stay in the hostel for a while and wait until it gets a little less hot to go for a hike. We went in the afternoon to the ARCH, which was a little harder than we had thought. It was a nice hike and we met some nice people on our way back.
Our last day in Boulder wasn't the nicest... We had to cancel our hiking plans as it was raining heavily and went to the movies instead because we didn't want to stay at the hostel the whole day. We watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall which is a really funny comedy, and the last Indiana Jones which, in my opinion, isn't that good. Also, we had to walk all the way there because the buses weren't running due to a festival going on... We really trusted what it said at the bus stop, though, and thus believed that there was a bus going from the mall back to downtown. There wasn't. Don't trust the American public transport! :) Well, at some places, anyway.
And that would be it 'cause we left Boulder the next morning.
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